Trump announces Israel-Iran ceasefire; attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar

• Trump announces ceasefire: US President Donald Trump announced Monday evening a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. Iran’s state media confirmed a ceasefire deal but there has been no official comment from Israel yet and it is not clear what time any pause may take place.

• Strikes continue: Israel said it identified missiles launched from Iran early Tuesday morning with one slamming into a residential building in the south that left three dead. Iranian state media reported Israel launched fresh attacks on Iran’s capital Tehran overnight.

• Negotiation details: Qatar helped broker the ceasefire by mediating talks with Iran, sources say. Israel agreed to the ceasefire deal on the condition that Iran stop its attacks in their country, a senior White House official told CNN. Iran agreed to those terms, the source said.

The emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said earlier a man around 40 years old, a woman about 30 years old and a man around 20 years old were critically wounded. The Israel Defense Forces said it identified missiles launched from Iran toward Israel and instructed residents to enter bomb shelters.

US President Donald Trump claimed late Monday night that Israel and Iran reached out to him almost simultaneously about peace between the two regions, as the Israeli military said it had identified missiles launched toward the nation from Iran.

That Trump and a group of his top diplomatic and security officials worked furiously behind-the-scenes to try to broker a peace deal to end the conflict between Iran and Israel in the hours after Iran launched a missile attack on a US base in Qatar.

Moments before Trump’s post, the Israeli military said it had identified missiles launched toward Israel from Iran and said its defensive systems were activated.

Iranian state media announced Tuesday local time that a ceasefire has been “imposed on the enemy” after the country’s military response to “US aggression.”

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports anti-aircraft fire lighting up the sky over the Iranian capital Tehran, after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

A missile hit a residential building in the southern Israel city of Beer Sheva, according to Israeli authorities.

Firefighters are currently working to search the area, Shiral Ben David, a spokesperson for Israel Fire and Rescue said Tuesday morning local time.

Photos from the scene shared by Israel’s emergency services, Magen David Adom (MDA) showed debris at the scene and emergency services responding to the explosion.

Earlier, a video filmed by a CNN producer in Jerusalem showed several rockets flying through the sky as sirens sounded across the country and the military warned of a new wave of missiles launched from Iran.

Oil prices extended their slide during Tuesday trade in Asia as Iranian state media announced a ceasefire deal, easing investors’ concerns over supply disruptions.

US West Texas Intermediate crude last slumped by 2% to $67.13 per barrel, hitting its lowest level in nearly two weeks. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was down 1.8% to $67.17 a barrel.

Late on Monday, Trump announced what he called “a complete and total” ceasefire between Israel and Iran in a post on social media, which he said he hoped would become permanent. Iranian state media announced Tuesday a ceasefire has been “imposed on the enemy.”

On Monday, oil prices lost more than 7% after Iran launched targeted and limited missiles strike at US bases in Qatar. US crude tumbled 7.2% to settle at $68.51 a barrel, the biggest one-day drop since early April and one of the worst days over the past three years. Brent closed at $71.48 a barrel, down 7.2%, the steepest since August 2022, according to Reuters.

The last time US oil traded below $70 was June 12, a day before Israel began launching strikes at Iran’s nuclear facilities. The decline in crude prices marks a dramatic turnaround from Sunday evening, when prices spiked 6% to as high as $78.50 a barrel.Oil prices had jumped over 10% to a five-month high since the start of hostilities, over concerns of potential disruption to global oil supply.

Iranian state media announced Tuesday a ceasefire has been “imposed on the enemy” after the country’s military response to “US aggression,” hours after Iran’s retaliatory attacks against a US base in Qatar.

“The Sepah (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) successful missile operations in response to US aggression and the exemplary steadfastness and unity of our dear people in defending our land, has imposed ceasefire on the enemy,” an anchor with state-run Iran National News Network said in a live broadcast.

The anchor did not give a time for when the ceasefire would take place.

US President Donald Trump requested the ceasefire between Iran and Israel “in a begging-like manner” shortly after Iran’s strikes toward the US’s Al Udeid base in Qatar, the anchor said.

“Last evening, only an hour after the successful missile attack by the Sepah on America’s Al Udeid Base in Qatar, in a begging-like manner of urging, Trump requested the initiation of a ceasefire in the imposed Zionist enemy war against our country,” the anchor said.

The Israeli military said it has identified missiles launched toward Israel from Iran, and that its defensive systems were activated.

The alert comes after Iran’s Foreign Minister hinted hostilities may have ended, and that Iran would halt its military response if Israel stopped its strikes on Iran by 4 a.m. local time in Tehran.

It is now shortly before 6 a.m in Iran.

Iran on Monday fired about a dozen short and medium-range ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest US military facility in the Middle East, and home to thousands of US troops.

US and Iraqi officials said Iran gave notice that the strike was coming, and Patriot missile batteries were able to shoot down all but one of the incoming projectiles. No one was killed or wounded in Qatar.

The base — about 20 miles southwest of the Qatari capital of Doha — was largely empty of US aircraft at the time of the Iranian strikes, as satellite photos show they had been flown out before the US B-2 bomber strike on Iran at the weekend.

Al Udeid is vital to the US military’s position in the Middle East.

It’s the forward headquarters of the Tampa, Florida-based US Central Command, which controls military activities across the region.

Other key tenants are Central Command’s Combined Air Operations Center and the US Air Force’s 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, which calls itself “the regional epicenter of power projection.”

Besides hosting rotating combat aircraft, the bases has key logistics, refueling and medical facilities.

Al Udeid has been active in supporting US operations in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

According to the US State Department, Qatar has supported base development with an $8 billion investment since 2003.

Trump himself visited the base during his Middle East trip last month.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi thanked Iran’s armed forces and said military operations against Israel “continued until the very last minute,” hinting that hostilities may have ended.

Earlier, Araghchi had said Iran would halt its military response if Israel stopped its strikes on Iran by 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, which is 30 minutes ahead of Israel. Araghchi’s latest post came just after 4 a.m. in Israel.

“Together with all Iranians, I thank our brave Armed Forces who remain ready to defend our dear country until their last drop of blood, and who responded to any attack by the enemy until the very last minute.”

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria reacts to President Donald Trump announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, which he says he hopes to become permanent. Neither Iran nor Israel has made any comments about a pending ceasefire.

House Democrats are divided over US President Donald Trump’s handling of Iran after he announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel that the US helped broker after the president authorized strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities this weekend.

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